Django: zero dependencies for years, you could literally copy paste the code and it worked, ORM included.

It now has 2 dependencies. It is a 1000 times easier to use than hibernate, despite being one of the worse ORM in Python.

That the problem with old Java libs like Swing or Hibernate: they have been designed for the 90' and don't leverage the potential of what a modern Java version can do.

You can use lean Java persistence frameworks with lesser dependencies if you wish. I think mybatis only has 4/5 dependencies and 2 of them are the the standard slf4/logback dependencies.

There are many modern java libraries that are very lean and mean out there and package into small-sized redistributable assemblies.

Pointing to Swing or Hibernate is akin to pointing to GoLang of 2012 or Python of 2001.